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Origin and Etymology of the Surname APPLEBY, APPLEBEE, APPELBEE.

From A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, by C. W. E. Bardsley, A. Bardsley, 1901, and,
An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names, by William Arthur, M. A., 1857.

 

APPLEBY, APPLEBEE, APPELBEE.   Bardsley has:  A local name meaning "of Appleby," parishes in cos. Westm., Lincoln, and Leicester.  Many local surnames ending in by are now found as bee.

Arthur has:  A town in Westmoreland, England, called Aballaba by the Romans, from which the name is derived.  By signifies a town,—the apple-town.

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